Plant Diversity
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- Haploid (N), or gamete- producing, phase of an organism
- Gametophyte
- Diploid (2N), or spore- producing, phase of an organism
- Sporophyte
- Nonvascular Plants
- Bryophytes
- Long thin cells that anchor mosses into the ground and absorb water and minerals fromt he surrounding soil
- Rhizoids
- Small multicellular cpheres that contain many haploid cells
- Gemmae
- Mass of tangled green filaments
- Protonema
- Where sperm with whiplike tails are produced
- Antheridia
- Where egg cells are produced
- Archegonia
- Type of tissue that is specialized to conduct water and nutrients through the body of the plant
- Vascular Tissue
- Hollow plant cell in xylem tissue with thick cell walls that resist pressure
- Tracheids
- form of vascular tissue that carries water upward from the roots to every part of the plant
- Xylem
- Transports solutions of nutrients and carbohydrates produced by photosynthesis
- Phloem
- A substance that makes cell walls rigid
- Lignin
- Undeground organs that absorb water and minerals
- Roots
- Photosynthetic organs that contain one or more bundles of vascular tissue
- Leaves